NEW YORK CITY 4 Days | Drama-Focused Student Tour
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On this 4-day New York City student trip, your theatre and performance class will work with Broadway professionals, watch performances on the world’s most iconic stages, and be inspired for a lifetime! Enjoy an insider’s look into the exclusive television archives at Paley Center for Media, and a special workshop about the role of television and radio today. Join theatre professionals in a private workshop to help students make bold and creative acting choices. Spend an afternoon on THE RIDE—a performance tour where the streets of New York turn into a live stage. And your trip would not be complete without a world-class theatrical performance. Your students will also explore the city, making stops at Central Park, Times Square, the Brooklyn Bridge, Staten Island, Rockefeller Center and more!
WHATS INCLUDED: Sites & Activities: Times Square, Central Park, Paley Center for Media, The RIDE, Rockefeller Center, 5th Avenue, Top of the Rock, Staten Island, Brooklyn Bridge Walk, 9/11 Memorial, Making a Scene Workshop, Broadway Show
Your Brightspark Accommodations Tour Leader 3 Nights Hotel
Transportation Meals Private Motor Coach 3 Breakfasts WHY BRIGHTSPARK? PUTTING YOUR EXPERIENCE FIRST
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“Overall experience from start to finish was fantastic. The kids had a great time and will have memories that will last a lifetime/our tour leaders, Phillipe & Adriele went above and beyond getting to know the students and helping us with special requests. Thank you for everything!”
Gatestone Staff & Students, HWDSB NEW YORK CITY - 4 Days | Drama-Focused Student Tour
DAY 1 DAY 3 6:30 AM: Board the motor coach (washroom-equipped & 8:45 AM: Breakfast climate-controlled) and depart for New York City. 9:30 AM: Board your motor coach and depart for your 9:00 AM: Border Crossing. Make sure your passport and next activity. any other important documents are in a safe and 10:30 AM: Staten Island Ferry. Travel between Whitehall accessible place for border agents. Street in lower Manhattan on a gorgeous 6:30 PM: Hotel check-in. 25-minute ferry ride. Marvel at the Statue of 8:30 PM: Times Square. Head to the heart of the Great Liberty and Ellis Island and get a photo of the White Way and be amazed by the bright lights and skyscrapers that make up the New York skyline. massive screens. Join the crowds on the famous 11:45 AM: Brooklyn Bridge Walk. Marvel at this engineering Red Stairs and get caught up in the excitement as masterpiece and experience great views of your wander through the square. Manhattan. 11:00 PM: Night Security each evening between 11 PM and 6 12:30 AM: Visit the 9/11 Memorial. “Reflecting Absence” are AM. twin reflecting pools that sit within the footprints of the towers. Your students will learn about the DAY 2 events of this day and will pay respects to the 8:45 AM: Breakfast nearly 3,000 people who died in the terror attacks 10:30 AM: Workshop at the Paley Center for Media. Paley on September 11, 2001 and the six people killed Center Educators lead sessions on a wide range during the bombing in February 1993. of subjects such as advertising, the documentary 1:30 PM: Lunch form, and the civil rights movement to build 3:30 PM: Making a Scene. Work with professional actors or analytical thinking, viewing, and listening skills teachings artists on acting techniques and and provide insight into the roles television and character development to build bold and creative radio play in our culture. acting choices. 12:30 PM: Lunch 5:30 PM: Times Square. Head to the heart of NYC for dinner 3:00 PM: THE RIDE. Groups experience the surprise of and time to explore! improv comedy, the songs and voices of 8:00 PM: Watch a Broadway Show. Explore a whole new Broadway, the facts of a city sights tour, and the world, discover what came before the yellow brick memory of a lifetime in this theatrical show and road or sing along with your favourite meerkat and immersive tour. warthog duo. Theatre tickets are subject to 5:00 PM: Explore Central Park. Central Park, the first schedule and availability. landscaped public park in the United States, is one of the urban wonders of the world and a green DAY 4 oasis in the great concrete, high-rise landscape of 8:45 AM: Breakfast New York City. 9:30 AM: Hotel check-out 6:30 PM: Rockefeller Center and 5th Avenue. Visit New 10:00 PM: Welcome home! York’s most famous street to shop and browse along 5th Avenue and Rockefeller Center. Dinner at your own cost in the area. 8:30 PM: Visit Top of the Rock. Experience unparalleled views of New York City from the Observation Deck
on the 70th floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, in the
heart of midtown Manhattan.
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